When the Irish nun said to me, "Speak your name loud and clear so that all the boys and girls can hear… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
“A stranger could drive through Miguel Street and just say “Sum!” because he could see no more. But we who lived there… — V.S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
Why is it so much easier to talk to a stranger? why do we feel we need to disconnect in order to… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
People said that video games were bad because they made you numb to death, made you register entrails splattering across a screen… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
Marriage means handing over yourself, your body, your future, your keeping to the one whom you dearly love, although this person may,… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
“If I had hoped to skirt the sense of being a stranger in the world by coming to Ghana, then disappointment awaited… — Saidiya V. Hartman Copy Share Image
To disguise nothing, to conceal nothing, to write about those things that are closest to our pain, our happiness; to write about… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
She saved my life...and I’ve ruined hers. They sat in silence for a full minute, the air between them growing heavy, as… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
I feel really comfortable when the camera is rolling. I feel less comfortable in the moments before and after, like, "Okay, where… — Mackenzie Davis Copy Share Image
My friend is one who takes me for what I am. A stranger takes me for something else than what I am.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Come with me if you want to live.” Neva stared at the enormous hand the stranger extended her. Her gaze followed the… — Dani Harper Copy Share Image
“The strangeness of the Barrayaran government system with all its unwritten customs, pressed on Cordelia not so much as first glance but… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
A child who had been introduced to misery in Saudi Arabia, a teenager who went to wage jihad against the Soviets in… — Terry Hayes Copy Share Image
Turn in upon yourselves, get into your closets, and now resolve to dwell there. You have been strangers to this work too… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
A refugee is not just someone lacking in money and everything else. A refugee is vulnerable to the slightest touch: he has… — Maria Franziska von Trapp Copy Share Image
Only later did I come to understand that to be a mother is to be an illusion. No matter how vigilant, in… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
And so, lastly, does the very name of "Catholic", which, not without reason, amid so many heresies, the Church has thus retained;… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“The world was made up of people putting one foot in front of the other; and a life might appear ordinary simply… — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
“I knew long ago and rediscovered that the best way to attract attention,help,and conversation is to be lost.A man who seeing his… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Tell me, enigmatical man, whom do you love best, your father, Your mother, your sister, or your brother? I have neither father,… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Life, my dear Watson, is infinitely stranger than fiction; stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We could not… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Anybody who has ever owned a dog who barked when strangers came near its owner's property has experienced the essential continuity between… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
The irony of conversing with a stranger is that your individual lives always look very different and personal, but then you strip… — Charlie Peacock Copy Share Image
